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Alexa … can we cut the cord yet? Alexa’s ongoing quest to become queen bee in the smart home shows no signs of slowing down. The voice-activated assistant is already able to control an interior environment (thermostats, lights etc.). Now Alexa will be equipped to handle everything on the primary screen in your house. Amazon

FireBoard adds Amazon Alexa voice integration to its smart thermometer September 08, 2016 — KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Whirling around the kitchen, keeping track of everything cooking can be a tall order, but a new voice assisted feature available through Amazon’s Alexa platform makes cooking just a bit easier.� Now you

The new Amazon Fire HD 8 Image: amazon By Lance Ulanoff2016-09-08 13:00:00 UTC While Apple and others are struggling a bit to interest new customers in tablets (and existing ones in upgrading the hearty devices), Amazon has been happily selling a line of extremely low-cost Android devices featuring its own Fire OS. The strategy has

Tweet Share “Alexa” is coming to mobile — provided that mobile device is made by Amazon. Amazon today announced a new tablet, the Fire HD 8, which bears the same name as the Fire HD 8 tablet before it. The new tablet has the same eight-inch, 1280 by 800 resolution touchscreen display like its predecessor;

Amazon’s Fire tablets are the latest devices to get Alexa, the company’s answer to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana Amazon’s Alexa is present in millions of living rooms by way of the Echo speaker and the Fire TV. Now, Amazon’s virtual assistant is coming to tablets with new $89.99 Fire HD 8, the company announced

Until now, Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant—a voice controlled helper that answers questions, plays music on command, and orders diapers —has been limited to only a few devices. People needed one of Amazon’s home automation devices, the Echo and Echo Dot, or its Fire TV for streaming video, to use the sci-fi technology. But on Thursday,